NO CREDIT RIVER

by Zoe Whittall

No Credit River is a slim “unreliable memoir” in prose poetry that will inspire anyone who loves the written word. Disarmingly honest and beautifully written, the pages meander through Whittall’s inner world of love, rejection, loss, child-like responses, and the ambivalent joy of being a creative spirit. I love that the short extracts build into a narrative, describing a six-year period in Whittall’s life, and ending with her in an open but settled place. It’s hard to say exactly what makes this book so powerful, but I suspect it’s Whittall’s ability to turn her astutely objective writer’s eye on herself, and express her vulnerability without self-pity or sentimentality.